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Normal vs nut cases

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Conservative vs Liberal















If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a conservative is avegetarian, he doesn`t eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy.
A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.

If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

If a black man or Hispanic are conservative, they see themselves as independently successful.
Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a conservative doesn't like atalk show host, he switches channels.
Liberalsdemand that those they don't like be shut down.


If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.
(Unless it's a foreign religion, of course!)


If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.



If a conservative slips and falls in a store, he gets up, laughs and is embarrassed.
If a liberal slips and falls, he grabs his neck, moans like he's in labor and then sues.


If a conservative reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A liberal will delete it because he's "offended".​
 

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wtf is the point of posting partisan tripe like that?

I would argue that the terms "liberal" and "conservative" are so vague and misused as to render your entire post self-contradictory.

Furthermore, in each case the first possibility applies to me and the second does not. However, I am not and do not consider myself a "conservative". I consider myself a liberal of the classical variety.

The problem is, you define "liberal" as someone to whom the second possibility in each case applies. But none of those things apply to me, a self-declared liberal.

So where does that leave your meaningless partisan BS now? Are you going to argue to my face that, since I'm a liberal, I want all TV channels shut down, because I don't like and don't watch any of them?

So, to summarize, this thread is f*ing stupid.
 

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marshaul wrote:
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I consider myself a liberal of the classical variety.


Surely you're aware of the difference between classical liberalism and the modern American variety. A classical liberal is MUCH closer to a current American conservative than to a liberal.
 

marshaul

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Flyer22 wrote:
marshaul wrote:
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I consider myself a liberal of the classical variety.
 

Surely you're aware of the difference between classical liberalism and the modern American variety.  A classical liberal is MUCH closer to a current American conservative than to a liberal.
Of course I'm aware; that was the whole point. As soon as you break things down into false paradigms you begin talking nonsense.
 
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